Palace names Comelec commissioners

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NEW COMMISSIONERS. Al Parreño (left) and Luie Guia (right) will join the Comelec less than a month before elections. Photos from Parreño's Facebook page and Rappler

Less than a month before elections, the head of a poll watchdog and a transportation executive will help steer the poll body, the Palace confirmed on Thursday, April 18. President Benigno Aquino III has appointed Luie Guia, executive director of the Legal Network for Truthful Elections (Lente), and Al Parreño, a board member of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), as new Comelec commissioners. Guia and Parreño enter the Comelec amid obstacles from the Supreme Court, which, in fact, have prompted poll chief Sixto Brillantes Jr to say he wants to quit. The Comelec has lacked two Commissioners since February, when former commissioners Rene Sarmiento and Armando Velasco ended their terms.

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